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CALL FOR PAPERS

Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS 2020)

October 28 - 30, 2020, Tunis, Tunisia

Paper submission deadline: July 5, 2020

Conference website: http://giis-2020.dnac.org

Submissions link: http://edas.info/N27360

- Technically co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Communications Society
- All accepted and presented papers will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital library


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The Global Information Infrastructure Networking Symposium (GIIS) consists of an interrelated set of technical, policy, and social issues implicit in the development of national and international (global) information infrastructures and networks. GIIS aims at identifying and promoting the exchange of knowledge on these interrelated issues and provides liaison to bodies in the global society, technical fora and international standards.

The main topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


Track 1: Next Generation Networking and Communications
• Next generation (5G) mobile communications
• Heterogeneous networks and small cells
• Centralized-RAN, Could-RAN, and Fog-RAN architectures
• Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Radio (SDR), and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
• Resource orchestration in next-generation networks
• Network Slicing
• Ad Hoc and sensor networks
• D2D and M2M communications
• Multi-antenna and beamforming systems
• Signal processing for communications
• Big data networking
• Cognitive radio and networks
• Pervasive and mobile computing
• Wireless optical communications and VLC
• Communications switching and routing
• Traffic measurement and analysis
• Smart grid and powerline communications
• Satellite and space communications


Track 2: Internet of Things
• Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT
• IoT architecture design and optimization
• Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks
• IoT communication protocols (6LoWPAN, RPL, 6TiSCH, LoRaWAN)
• IoT data protocols (MQTT-SN, COAP, XMPP-IoT, AMQP)
• URLLC for mission critical IoT
• Energy efficiency and energy harvesting in IoT
• Data science and Machine learning for IoT
• Data collection, processing, aggregation, and communication
• Self-organization and self-healing of IoT networks
• Cross-layer design and optimization in IoT
• Machine-type communications in 5G systems
• Security and privacy for IoT
• Blockchain and IoT
• Sensor deployment, placement, control and management issues
• Experimental results, prototypes, trials and testbeds for IoT


Track 3: Emerging Topics in Communications and Networking
• Edge-Fog Computing
• Mobile cloud computing and 5G
• Privacy and security in 5G
• Cyber-physical systems
• Big data and 5G data analytics
• V2X standards and architectures
• R&D activities towards IMT-2020 and beyond
• 5G Spectrum
• 5G standardization
• 5G applications and services
• Data science and Machine learning for 5G
• Network functions virtualization and software defined networking
• Network slicing
• Emerging IoT applications in 5G networks
• Tactile Internet
• Molecular, biological and multi-scale communications
• Telecommunication and Network Engineering Education


Track 4: Services, Standardization and Telecom Policies 
• Communication software and services
• Services for rural and developing areas
• Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE)
• Cloud computing
• Smart cities, smart public places, smart home, smart agriculture/farming
• Standards for communications and networking
• Telecommunication Standards Education
• Standardization activities (IEEE, 3GPP, ITU, ETSI, IETF)
• Open communities, open API, open source
• Telecom, governance, policy and regulations
• Telecom business: local, country, region and international cases
• Business models for global access
• Spectrum regulation
• Strategies for growing rural connectivity
• Communities in connectivity policy making
• Social and societal roles of ICT


Submission Guidelines
The authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers for presentation at the conference and publication in the GIIS 2020 Proceedings. All final submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 6 printed pages (10-point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 2 additional pages with over length page charge for an additional fee, if accepted) . Papers exceeding 8 pages will not be accepted at EDAS. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX formats are found at here.
At least one author of each accepted presentation must register to the conference and present the paper. All papers must be submitted in electronic form by the deadline through EDAS web site at: http://edas.info/N27360

Important Dates:

Full paper submission: July 5, 2020
Acceptance notification: September 7, 2020
Camera-ready papers: September 25, 2020



TPC Chairs :
• Nesrine Kaaniche (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Ines El Korbi (ISI, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia)
• Achim Brucker (University of Exeter, UK)



General Chairs :
• Rami Langar (University Gustave Eiffel, France)
• Guy Pujolle (Sorbonne University, France)
• Farouk Kamoun (Sesame University, Tunisia)
• Monia Najar (ISI, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia)

For further information, see http://giis-2020.dnac.org